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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.) Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. It’s a problem that all weather driven sports have.

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Ardent War Story 4: You Know You're Getting Close to Your.

Steve Blank

my hotel room was stacked with the journals and textbooks about each vertical market just to keep up with the people we were meeting. (I We’re glad your company hired a real petroleum engineer to come speak to us. As I traveled to some of the most arcane trade shows and conferences ( AIAA , SPE , MSC , etc.),